\u201cI don\u2019t like the word failure,\u201d Gorton said. \u201cWe all want the playoffs, we all want to keep moving forward. We\u2019re trying to build something for a long period of time. I like our group; let\u2019s see where it takes us. We\u2019d be disappointed (to not make the playoffs). We want it, the players have been outspoken about that, I wouldn\u2019t expect anything else.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe players don\u2019t want to hear \u2018rebuild\u2019 or anything like that, I understand that. The players are focused, they like their team, they like their group. You can see how tight-knit they are, they\u2019re ready to go. I think 750 players in the League all think they\u2019re making the playoffs, and our players are no different.\u201d<\/p>\n
The lofty expectations beyond the organization, coach St. Louis said, are pretty much white noise to those who run the team and play the games.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe expectations are probably more from you guys,\u201d he said of the media. \u201cWe\u2019re just moving along. We want to keep progressing. We\u2019re not too worried about the noise outside. We\u2019re just getting after it internally.\u201d<\/p>\n
Suzuki paused on the clubhouse steps to mingle with Canadiens legend Yvan Cournoyer, who 50 years ago on this Sept. 15 in 1975 was named captain.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Roadrunner\u201d — No. 12 voted the team\u2019s 12th captain in his 12th season — would win the Stanley Cup four consecutive seasons wearing the \u201cC,\u201d the seventh through 10th of his career, then retire.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019m a little behind,\u201d Suzuki joked to Cournoyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t like the word failure,\u201d Gorton said. \u201cWe all want the playoffs, we all want to keep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-146428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}